Day: June 25, 2024

Gaza: Seven Palestinians were martyred and others were injured on Monday as a result of a raid carried out by Israeli occupation warplanes on Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources explained, according to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), that the martyrs and wounded fell as a result of the occupation aircraft targeting a gathering of Palestinian citizens at the Bani Suhaila roundabout, east of the city, noting that the martyrs and wounded were transferred to Nasser Hospital.

This comes after three martyrs were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation bombing of a gathering of citizens in the vicinity of the Al Shati camp supply center, west of Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation continues its intense and unprecedented aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7, by launching dozens of raids by air, land, and sea, in addition to committing bloody massacres against Palestinian civilians and carrying out genocide crimes in the areas of incursion, which left tens of
thousands martyrs, wounded and missing, wreaked destruction and huge damage to infrastructure, facilities, and vital facilities, causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip as a result of the cessation of food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies due to occupation restrictions.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Dozens of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque today, Monday.

129 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa through the Mughrabi Gate, whose keys have been controlled by the occupation authorities since the occupation of Jerusalem. The settlers prayed during the storming of Al-Aqsa.

Yesterday, the settlers objected to the closure of the “incursions” yesterday, Sunday, on the anniversary of the Islamic New Year, refusing to be prevented on several days and occasions from storming what they call the “temple.”

It is noteworthy that the incursions are carried out daily on Al-Aqsa during the periods of “morning and afternoon incursions”, with the exception of Fridays and Saturdays of each week, and in the last ten days of Ramadan and on religious occasions and the two Eids of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Late last night, the settlers organized the monthly march at the gates of Al-Aqsa, where they performed prayers, formed dancing and singing circles, and chanted slogans against Arabs and Muslims. The police
were deployed during this in the streets of the Old City and the gates of Al-Aqsa.

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman, The Jordanian Public Security Directorate announced the seizure of explosive materials hidden in a commercial warehouse in the capital, Amman, two days after explosives were seized inside a house in the capital as well.

The Directorate said, in a statement broadcast by Jordan News Agency (Petra), that investigations by the security services in the case of the southern Marka area resulted in reaching another location where the same people hid explosive materials in the Abu Alandah area.

The security services cordoned off and isolated a commercial store in the area that was used to store explosives, as bomb disposal experts dealt with the site where it was detonated, it added.

The Jordanian Public Security Directorate confirmed that the bombing operations ended with the highest levels of professionalism and without any significant injuries or damage, noting at the same time that the case is still under investigation.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Jerusalem – Together – Novelist and poet Afnan Golani signed her poetry collection ‘Soul Companion’ today, during a cultural meeting held in the city of Jerusalem sponsored by the Jerusalem Cultural Salon, and in the presence of a number of writers, poets, and those interested in culture and literature.

The head of the Cultural Salon, Dr. Sanaa Attari, the evening’s guest, pointing out that the Jerusalem Cultural Salon seeks to preserve the national and cultural identity in Jerusalem, and despite the circumstances in which our Palestinian people live, the Jerusalemite is trying to win through the word, poem, and national poetry.

She added that the poet Julani enriches the Jerusalem cultural scene with various novels and poems that deal with various social and life aspects, and this meeting comes as a culmination of her literary work and her enrichment of the cultural and literary scene in Jerusalem through her various literary works.

In turn, Julani expressed her happiness at signing her collection ‘Soul C
ompanion’ in her hometown of Jerusalem, presenting an overview of the collection, which includes 48 poems in poetic and prose form. The story of ‘Soul Companion’ deals with every person we love.

She said that her collection calls for contemplation and review and is considered a window to beauty, love and hope. It is not just a collection of poems, but rather a journey into the inner worlds of man, exploring the depths of the human soul, and expressing its concerns, dreams and aspirations, noting that the poems carry within them sublime national and humanitarian meanings. She touches hearts with her sincere and expressive words.

During the meeting, Julani revealed that she is preparing a new novel that embodies the suffering of the Palestinian people, stressing that she will continue to write and express her community’s issues through literature.

The audience praised Golani’s creativity and her contribution to enriching the Palestinian cultural scene, and journalist Munir Al-Ghoul emphasized the writer’s ab
ility to register her presence in the Jerusalem cultural scene through her literary and poetic writings, and that the meeting is a true testimony to the vitality of Jerusalem culture.

The writer Julani is a poet and novelist from the city of Jerusalem, a member of the Union of Arab Writers, Authors and Poets, and a member of the Union of Arab Writers and Artists in the Arab World. She contributes to enriching the cultural and literary scene in the city, and seeks to highlight the Jerusalemite cultural voice in the Arab world through her Arab and international participation.

It is noteworthy that the collection ‘Soul Companion’ is the second publication by writer Afnan Golani and was published by Dar Al-Shamil Publishing and Distribution, after her first novel ‘It Was Mine.’ The collection was recently launched within the activities of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.

Source: Maan News Agency

Doha: HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent Tuesday a cable of congratulations to HE President of the Republic of Slovenia Natasa Pirc Musar on the anniversary of the Statehood Day.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Hebron – Ma’an – In the meantime, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished a three-story inhabited house in the Bir al-Mahjar area, west of the city of Hebron, without prior warning.

Youssef Abu Aisha said that an occupation army force, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the house of his brother Tamer Abdel Jawad Abu Aisha, and asked him to evacuate the house with his 10 family members, because they would demolish the house.

He added that the force had about 20 masked men with them, who forcibly entered the house and evacuated its contents, while at the same time bulldozers were carrying out the demolition.

He confirmed that his brother has all the necessary licenses to build his house.

Source: Maan News Agency

Al-Khalil-Ma’an- Social media sites were ablaze with angry and denouncing comments, some of which mocked the nature of the Arabic language exam questions that high school students took on Monday, as they omitted patriotic lessons and poems… Accusations were also directed at the person who wrote the questions, that he does not live the reality that the Palestinian people live in, as they said about him: “The person who wrote the questions is a linguistic expert, not an expert in teaching the Arabic language, and he did not take into account the individual, mental and psychological differences among the students.

A specialist in Arabic language sciences demanded that the students be compensated with an increase of 15 marks over the students’ marks after correcting the exam.

One of the posts said: ‘The person who asked the questions did not experience what the Palestinians experienced in this exceptional and difficult year, as if he was sending a message to the student (I studied or I did not study, I was ti
red or I was not tired, I attended or I was absent, you will not do well).

A comment by the mother of a high school student said: ‘I am a teacher and I taught my son the literary subject.. The exam is difficult, why do you do this to the students? The conditions that the student is experiencing are not enough!’

Another comment said: ‘The exam is difficult, Your Honor. It does not measure the students’ abilities in their curriculum… Rather, it measures their knowledge of language, grammar, and morphology, and they are not specialists.’

To find out the depth of the pain and sadness that loomed over the students and their families, I interviewed a specialist in Arabic language, who refused to reveal his name, and he refuted the exam, saying: ‘The exam is long, as the student needs about 40 minutes, just to read the questions, and it took me about 31 minutes to read the exam carefully and think, in addition to the fact that reading the questions is tiring to the eyes, requires more coordination, and the spac
e between the paragraphs should be a little larger.’

The specialist added: ‘The questions were based on induction, many of them from the book, but they were not in the style of the book, so they needed an expert, i.e. a teacher, to answer them, not the one who explained it.’

Regarding parsing, only one word was parsed from the lessons of the book, and the rest of the words were mentioned in the lessons of previous classes, and it was appropriate for the word to be taken from the previous lessons and the majority from the students’ lessons. Also, an important subject and many lessons of questions were neglected, so they did not have any presence. There are more important lessons. And patriotic poems were absent.

The expert explained that for the morphological subject, the test maker avoided all the words in the book related to morphological topics, and came with external examples. In the pieces, the focus was also on analytical questions, and the attendance rate for questions in the pieces lessons was zero,
and the questions came according to the vision of the questioner for the pieces, and the question was woven around them, so that the question became according to the reader’s understanding.

He stressed that the questions were set for the distinguished and outstanding students, and did not take into account the differences between the students, as he said: ‘All the questions extracted from the pieces and texts focused on the outstanding student, with the intention that they were directed to the distinguished student and did not take into account the differences of the students.’

He also called on the Ministry of Education to add 15 marks after correcting the exam for each male and female student, and thus they will be treated fairly.

He said: ‘Someone might say: There are students whose score was 90% and others’ score was 95%. We tell them: This is the distinguished group for whom the questions were written, and the exam makers researched about them.’

The specialist in Arabic language sciences praised the
author of the questions, saying: ‘I did not find any grammatical or typographical error. The author of the questions is a linguist and may be a university lecturer, and this is to his credit, with the emphasis being that he is a linguist and has no experience in teaching.’

Source: Maan News Agency

Washington, The State of Qatar and the United States of America have signed a Letter of Intent on cooperation in the field of security of major sporting events.

The Letter of Intent was signed in Washington by HE Minister of Interior and Commander of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and HE the US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

The Letter of Intent aims to enhance joint bilateral cooperation to leverage the expertise that Qatari security cadres gained through securing the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, in order to support efforts of securing the 2026 World Cup to be hosted by the United States, alongside Canada and Mexico.

HE the Minister of Interior reviewed with HE Alejandro Mayorkas aspects of cooperation between the two friendly countries in security areas and ways of enhancing and developing them, in addition to issues of common concern.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, confirmed on Tuesday that Israel has taken punitive measures against the Palestinians and continues settlement activities “because it is confident of continuing impunity.”

Mansour stressed, during a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East and the Palestinian issue, on Tuesday, that the time has come to ‘put an end to Israel’s impunity.’

He considered that the goal of officials in Israel is to “sabotage” the American initiative without anyone condemning them, stressing that the best way to thwart the goals of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

He continued: “Every country has a responsibility to ensure that all its institutions do not contribute in any way to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”

Source: Maan News Agency